Actually I promoted that (through a support case) more than 6 months ago while working for a big OS factory. In factories with a couple of years , Analytics performance would be crippled to a point it wasn't usable anymore.

However, having a "Settings" screen for Administrators to configure these kind of policies still makes sense,

and that is the idea I'm promoting, e.g. instead of changing the OSSYS_PARAMETER table by hand, which is a bit harder for the PaaS cloud.